Compatability/capacity Question 60 Gallon

[jonny5]

just wondering if this stock will be too much for the tank or have major compatability issues. I know jewel and figure 8 can be very mean but ive also talked to people who said they were quite docile to tank members so i assume its up to the individual fish.

3 silver mollies
1 krib
1 jewel cichlid
1 knight goby
2 orange chromides
1 figure 8 puffer
1 purple spotted gundgeon
1 dragon goby or 1 ropefish
1 lined sole
6 celebs rainbows
2 archer fish(or maybe the low salinity will stress them, the freshwater ones i have not seen in my area at all)

keep in mind that minus the archers and dragon goby, all are reletivly small fish.

oh and SG is going to be around 1.004, planted with anacharis, java fern, anubius, watersprite and giant vals(if they take it)

 

[nmonks]

It's a poor choice of fish. Won't work. Archers and jewles will view Celebes rainbows as food, ropefish are not really brackish water fish, puffers will bit ropefish and violet gobies, jewel will kill the krib… the list of problems goes on and on.

Let's say you want to keep archers. There are two kinds, low salinity Toxotes microlepis and high salinity T. jaculatrix and T. chatareus. Until you know which species your retailer has, you can't choose tankmates. At SG 1.005 you could keep any of the archer species though, alongside other fish of comparable size: giant sailfin mollies, knight gobies, orange chromides. Violet gobies can work too, but they need a lot of space. SG 1.005 would be much too high for Celebes rainbows, kribs, ropefish and Mogurnda species.

Flounders and soles should be initially kept on their own, and their only tankmates should be small, surface-swimming types, such as halfbeaks or at least fish that don't take food from the bottom, such as glassfish. Beginners shouldn't try to keep soles in communities at all because they will starve unless you understand precisely what these nocturnal carnivores need to survive. Most specimens end up dead.

Cheers, Neale

 

[jonny5]

It's a poor choice of fish. Won't work. Archers and jewles will view Celebes rainbows as food, ropefish are not really brackish water fish, puffers will bit ropefish and violet gobies, jewel will kill the krib… the list of problems goes on and on.

Let's say you want to keep archers. There are two kinds, low salinity Toxotes microlepis and high salinity T. jaculatrix and T. chatareus. Until you know which species your retailer has, you can't choose tankmates. At SG 1.005 you could keep any of the archer species though, alongside other fish of comparable size: giant sailfin mollies, knight gobies, orange chromides. Violet gobies can work too, but they need a lot of space. SG 1.005 would be much too high for Celebes rainbows, kribs, ropefish and Mogurnda species.

Flounders and soles should be initially kept on their own, and their only tankmates should be small, surface-swimming types, such as halfbeaks or at least fish that don't take food from the bottom, such as glassfish. Beginners shouldn't try to keep soles in communities at all because they will starve unless you understand precisely what these nocturnal carnivores need to survive. Most specimens end up dead.

Cheers, Neale

Ah Ty for all the info Neal, you have been a lot of help. I already have the Krib and jewel but as of now it's at 1.002 sg and they seem fine. Jewel is small and krib dominates it but my friend said he would take the jewel if it got aggressive when older, he's got a big African cichlids tank. Ya archers are what I desire most so I will hold off on more tankmates till I find some. I have celebs growing up in my 30g freshwater, I will just keep them in there ad adults too.